Bulb onion

Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, Aiye Tambua, strongly believes the increase in growing of bulb onions can give opportunities to local farmers. 

“Going forward we want to ban small things like onion, if we can grow them in the country why should we import more of that, so after 2-3 years if this product is gets off the road we might cut 50% of importation of onions so we give opportunity to our local farmers who are on the ground, local mothers who are on the ground so that they can earn more money in their pocket”, he stated. 

Fresh Produce Development Agency, bulb onion project manager, Wayne Powae, said during the launch of the bulb onion project that such funds must be retained to benefit PNG, and especially farmers.

He said the FPDA is now at the forefront of helping farmers to grow crops, to cut down on the large number of fresh produce imports.

Powae said the challenge to increase mass production of cash crops locally to meet the high demand is still huge.